Deploying Applications

If this is a redeployment, delete the existing deployment from the "%CATALINA_HOME%\webapps" directory. Place the "sample.war" file in the "%CATALINA_HOME%\webapps" directory and Tomcat with automatically deploy it. You will see a "sample" directory appear.

You don't need to stop and start Tomcat for this to work, but you can if you want.